Thanks for that worthless reply chennuts.
The default connection speed not only causes problems for faster servers and clients, but most new players don't even realize that it causes a problem, or that they have the option of changing it to something much more stable until someone else guides them through it online.
The real responsibility is to the developer to either make the the option clearly accessible to the user when he enters a multiplayer game, or to predict appropriately the best speed for that particular user.
33.6 is not an appropriate connection speed for fast connections--it causes stability problems, it's proven--changing your default connection speed involves hunting through furtive submenus and dropping your connection to the server and then starting it back up again. Any sense of responsiblity to be forced through all this rigamarole is lost on the average newbie, they just want to get in the air and shoot some real people. A lot of regulars no doubt forget to reset it on occasion after a reinstall.
Changing the default speed should be either obvious to the user, or else it should be something simple for the developers to fix in only one language version of the patch.